Stories

“What about you Zackary? Do you have any plans to keep you busy during the holidays?” Mum asked me. I so hated that name, but it is the name I was given at birth, and my middle name was just as bad, and I refused to use it, and regularly reminded my parents and brother to never speak that name.

As I considered the question, I wondered if the casual summer job that I have for the past few years was still available, which I had really enjoyed, and began just two days after Boxing Day. “I don’t know, nothing until after Christmas, and after that I am hoping that I will have my usual old job,” I replied.

Events on a small New England college campus, following an exceptional one. Gil Andrus and his husband, Pete Sordan, follow through the usual faculty politics and the unexpected mystery. And Don Burris, the detective from The Pendleton Omens, reappears.

Note: this book shares roots and occasionally overlaps with my other book, Quabbin, which is also set in Waldron, Massachusetts, though in a national clothing company. But they're different books with different sensibilities.

Tomasz (a recent college graduate, gay, un-employed) finds it difficult to talk to his mother, even in the last months she has to live.

“A decade ago, I was your pet. Now I'm your guardian.” In the distant future, the mutants resurrected magic and broke the very balance in all of Neo-Gaia's land. As things turned bleak, only one bond can save everything.

Some of the experiences you have at the gym aren't covered in the membership Folder.

Teenage Triumphs aired a few months ago. In Australia, the network saw another country's successful special episode, so why not throw caution to the wind and try one last time by replicating the UK's success?

This is Talented Teens - eight teenagers represent their schools in a test of endurance, intelligence and teamwork, but strong personalities collide when they must vote each other off one by one until only the Strongest Link remains - featuring Tyson, Elijah, Veikko and Topher from my other published stories.

Gabe meets Toby at a convention, but they live in different places. To truly be together, one of them is going to have to make a choice that will change their lives, hopefully for good.

Take my hand and dance with me

A story about boy meets boy in the mid 90's.

Spring break, and everyone is back from college for some good Southern partying. For those who never left, like Marshal, their friends coming back means booze, girls and hanging out on tailgates with a bigger crowd. Marshal is happy to spend his evening lusting after a man he can't have, but someone else has other ideas.